Recognizing that enhanced international cooperation and improved
coordination at national level will be important in efforts to meet
the 2010 target,

Noting Strategic Goal 1 of the Strategic Plan
adopted by decision VI/26; that the Convention is fulfilling its
leadership role in international biodiversity issues, and in
particular subsidiary goals 1.2; that the Convention is promoting
cooperation between all relevant international instruments and
processes to enhance policy coherence, and 1.3; that other
institutional processes are actively supporting the implementation
of the Convention, in a manner consistent with their respective
frameworks,

Noting the report by the secretariat on
cooperation with other organizations, initiatives and conventions
(UNEP/CBD/COP/7/19), which contains concrete examples of actions
that demonstrate cooperation between international conventions and
with implementing organizations,

Welcoming
the support of the
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA Resolution A/58/112) for the
ongoing work of the liaison group of the secretariats and officers
of the relevant subsidiary bodies of the UNFCCC, the UNCCD and the
CBD, which, inter alia, encourages continuing cooperation in
order to promote complementarities among the secretariats while
respecting their independent legal status,

Recognizing the leading role of UNEP in environmental
issues,

Recognizing the role of the Joint Liaison Group in
supporting cooperation between the Rio conventions, and the role of
the Collaborative Partnership on Forests in enhancing cooperation
and coordination on Forest issues, where the Secretariat of the
Convention on Biological Diversity is the focal agency on forest
biodiversity and traditional forest related
knowledge,

1. Urges further enhanced cooperation between the
Convention on Biological Diversity and all relevant international
conventions, organizations and bodies, strengthening and building
on existing cooperative arrangements to enhance synergies and
reduce inefficiencies in a manner consistent with their respective
mandates, governance arrangements and agreed programs, within
existing resources;

2. Requests in this context, the Executive Secretary,
to invite the secretariats of the other four biodiversity
conventions (CITES, Ramsar, CMS and World Heritage Convention) to
form a liaison group to enhance coherence and cooperation in their
implementation, and to report on progress made to the eighth
meeting of the Conference of the Parties;

3. Requests the Executive Secretary, drawing on the
experience gained in the exercise mentioned above, and in close
collaboration with relevant conventions, organizations and bodies,
to examine options for a flexible framework between all relevant
actors, such as a global partnership on biodiversity, in order to
enhance implementation through improved cooperation, and to report
to the Conference of the Parties at its eighth meeting on possible
ways forward;

4.
Requests the Executive Secretary to renew his
applications for observer status in relevant bodies of the World
Trade Organization, in particular, in the Council on Trade-related
Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs Council);

5.
Requests the Executive Secretary to inform the Ad Hoc Open
Ended Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention,
on ongoing work to establish ways of enhancing cooperation between
the major biodiversity related organizations and
secretariats;

6.
Requests all Parties and other Governments to support this
initiative at the national level and in relevant forums.